The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

The given graph illustrates how the percentage of families owning electrical

appliances

changed and the

time

a household spent on housework every

week

in a single country from 1920 to 2019.

Overall

, ownership of all three

appliances

increased during the years 1920 to 2019 whilst the

time

a family spent on housework every

week

declined. In 1920, the refrigerator owned the lowest proportion compared to

other

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the other

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two

appliances

, with almost 0%,

while

the percentage of washing machines and vacuum cleaners were 40% and 30%, respectively. They all kept growing until 1960,

a

Rephrase

when a

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decrease appeared in the proportion of washing machines. During

this

time

, the number of households owning refrigerators surged and surpassed the other two

appliances

. The proportion of refrigerators and vacuum cleaners both reached 100% between 1980 and 2000.

However

, after the drop in 1960, ownership of washing machines started to rise in 1980 and grew steadily.

In contrast

, the

time

a family spent doing housework started at 50 hours a

week

in 1920, significantly fell to 15 hours in 1980, remained stable between till 2000, and slightly dropped to nearly 10 hours a

week

.